Awarded Grants

To support the Co-op City Section of the National Council of Negro Women for their Saturday Educational Program, which provides academic tutoring to youth from the local community.

To support the Youth Leadership and Tutoring Program, which trains young people to create and implement civic engagement projects.

Are school-based mentoring (SBM) programs effective in fostering school performance and socio-emotional development?

To deepen and forge communications between and across research, policy, practice, and media within the allied youth fields.

What organizational practices appear to have the best payoff in terms of improving the quality of after-school program implementation? Which practices are not promising?

Investigators examine the social and economic characteristics of never-married mothers.

What caused the California Youth Authority – regarded as the most enlightened juvenile corrections system in the country as recently as the mid-1970s – to become the focus of national publicity on the widespread abuse of its young inmates?

How do state adolescent health coordinators impact their state’s adolescent health programs and policies?

What factors predict how well youth with disabilities will do after high school?

A study that compares young couples who will have broken up 50 months after the birth of their child to those who stay together.